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Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2Nd Place Texas Winner Official Publication of the Water Environment Association of Texas Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2nd Place Texas Winner Plus . • Government Affairs Committee Vision and Goals • TW09 Call for Abstracts • WEAT & WEF Awards Nominations • Houston Area Student Repeats 1st Place in SJWP • WEAT Loses a Good Member • Tech Talk Articles . 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Contact your Wilo representative, today, and celebrate the closeness. Wilo pumps and mixers. Always The Best Choice In The Long Run. Toll Free: 866-476-0323 | www.wilo-emu-usa.com July 2008 Texas WET | 3 Leadership for the Water Environment Table of Contents in Texas July 2008 Volume 25 Issue 4 Texas WET is published six times a Regular Features year for the Water Environment A Message from the President 4 Association of Texas. A Message from the Executive Director 5 2619 Jones Rd, Ste. C Government Affairs Committee Vision and Goals 6 Austin, Texas 78745 Highlights from the Association Office 7 512-693-0060 / Fax 512-693-0062 Calendar of Events 7 WEAT Staff and Volunteers WET Tech Talk Editor Cheryl Smith Advances in Odor Control: New Tools in the Toolbox 8 Association Manager Self Cleaning Trench Type Wetwell Design: An Innovative Way 866-406-WEAT [email protected] to Minimize your Footprint and Maintenance Headaches 12 New Members 20 Advertising Christianne Castleberry 2009 WEAT & WEF Awards State Level Nominations 22 512-751-9272 WEAT Section Activities 26 c.castleberry@ castleberryengineering.com Professional Directory 28 Layout and Design WEAT Mission Statement, Officers and Committees 30 Marcos Torres CSI/Capital Spectrum 512-482-4243 Special Features [email protected] WEAT Loses a Good Member 21 WET Tech Talk Members in the News 21 Richard Eason Houston Area Student Repeats First Place Win 512-261-6222, ext. 14 [email protected] in 2008 SJWP Competition 23 Association Members Who Make a Difference: WEAT Website Bruce Wiland 2008 Regional Science Fair Coordinators 24 512-444-3188 WEAT Hosted WEFMAX in Austin 28 [email protected] On the Cover: Texas WET issues are published in The San Antonio Section presented the 2nd place Texas Stockholm Junior Water Prize award January, March, May, July, Septem- to Amber Metzer at the Seguin ISD board meeting on June 3, 2008. San Antonio Section Repre- ber and November. Deadline for sentative Dennis Laskowski of San Antonio Water System and Young Professional Co-chair Alissa submitting articles is the 1st day Shackelford of CDM congratulated Amber. of the month preceding the issue month. Update Membership Info Online: Don’t miss your mailings. Update your membership information online at www.weat.org. Go to membership, then update your membership profile. You will need your membership ID number (8 digits on WEF WE&T and WEF Highlights mailing label). Your password is your last name. 4 | Texas WET 2008 A Message from President By Brad Castleberry, President Committee Growth & Opportunities outreach goals that WEAT is engaged in that also involve our Government Relations Committee. The Almost two years ago WEAT decided to most exciting initiative for me at this time is our website restructure its committees to create more opportunities overhaul project, which is being led by Richard Eason for member involvement. To do this, we first evaluated and Kimberly Carter. Both Richard and Kimberly have which committees were functioning and which were worked hard to secure contract services to give our not. We also looked at which committees were no website (www.weat.org) a much needed facelift and longer needed, and what technical topic areas could reorganization. This project is expected to be complete use a committee. Overall, this process was extremely by September, and will be the platform successful. The outcome was the creation of four areas for releasing more public information of committees -- Knowledge, Delivery, Stakeholder, regarding infrastructure issues and will and Management. Collectively, these four areas are provide a means for more and better comprised of 41 committees made up of dozens of active committee interaction. So, please stay volunteers. tuned for technological updates... Since embarking upon this endeavor, WEAT has To further engage our manufacturers and seen the most activity in its Knowledge Committees. This representatives, WEAT has reinstated our Manufacturers is in large part due to changes in how the committees and Representatives Committee (MARC). The MARC interact in developing articles for Texas WET and Committee is being led by Kent Guilbeau, whom many of participating in the process associated with technical you know, and the committee looks to provide feedback sessions at Texas WaterTM, but it is also due to the fact and active involvement as we proceed with scoping that we have some truly motivated committee chairs. future conferences, including Texas WaterTM, as well as For example, we have a new Groundwater Committee, other specialty conferences. Members of the MARC are chaired by Andrew Chastain-Howley, that has already key to the success of our industry, and I am excited to provided valuable insight regarding TCEQ rulemaking for have this committee back up and running again. desalination disposal and is in the process of organizing We also have a number of administrative a specialty conference to discuss desalination issues in committees that make sure our organization runs general. Likewise, we have a newly reactivated Laboratory smoothly on a daily basis. Given that WEAT employs one Committee, led by Dana White, that is considering how full time and four part time, or contract, staff members, best to share changes involving NELAC accreditation there are a number of administrative issues to address. and updates regarding pretreatment issues. These two Likewise, we provide significant support for all of the committees are working hard to provide educational local sections, including managing the finances for many opportunities for our members and non-members of their meetings. WEAT is currently in the process of (aka “members yet to be”). reviewing its administrative obligations and staffing WEAT also has Knowledge Committees that resources, and with the leadership of David Briggs, Paul focus on municipal waste treatment, collection systems, Roach, and Joe King, III, we hope to continue to provide reuse, biosolids, odor control, and a host of other the best service possible for our membership. technical areas. There are even still a few committee There are a number of exciting things ongoing chairs left to fill and we hope to do that by the end of within our organization, and there are many ways for July. All of our Knowledge Committees have some level you to get involved. Whether your interest is in a niche of activity ongoing, and with their energy, we are about technical area, or you are interested in public education to embark upon a string of months where we will provide and outreach, I promise that we have something a number of specialty topic related conferences for our available just for you. members. For details on these conferences, dates, and locations, please see Cheryl Smith’s article on page 7. Along with our Knowledge Committees, we have Brad Castleberry is the current President of WEAT. Brad is a principal in the firm of Lloyd Gosselink Blevins Rochelle and Townsend, a number of Delivery and Stakeholder Committees that P.C. Brad practices in the areas of water law, natural resources, address public outreach initiatives. In her article on environmental permitting, and construction litigation representing clients page 6, Holly Tichenor discusses many of the current on a variety of issues, including water supply planning, water quality management, and environmental defense. July 2008 Texas WET | 5 A Message from the Executive Director By Carol Batterton, Executive Director Regulatory Update l Surface Water Quality Standards. TCEQ l Laboratory Accreditation Requirements. posted a working draft of proposed rule changes As of July 1, 2008, all environmental testing data on their website the week of April 7, and held submitted to TCEQ for regulatory purposes another stakeholder meeting on May 5. We were must come from an accredited laboratory. In-house pleased that some of the proposed changes to the wastewater treatment plant laboratories are exempt standards were consistent with our suggestions in from this requirement unless the lab performs the joint resolution. See the TCEQ website for laboratory work for another entity in addition to additional information. http://www.tceq.state. their own facility. All drinking water labs are required tx.us/assets/public/permittingwaterquality/ to be accredited. More information is available at: attachments/stakeholders/307-7,8,9from http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/compliance/ MNGTdirectory.pdf compliance_support/qa/env_lab_accreditation.html WEAT will be providing additional written Legislative Update comments on recreational standards, nutrients and The Texas Legislature is holding a number of interim sub-lethal WET permit limits. WEAT representatives hearings throughout the summer on water related along with representatives from Texas Water issues.
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